quotations about compromise
Compromises have this recommendation, that if you concede anything, you have something conceded to you in return.
HENRY CLAY
The Compromise of 1850
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY
Moab Is My Washpot
Compromise
Let's chop it up and get to a solution
JOE
"Compromise"
It is the toughest thing in the world to spend your life battling with the person you love most on the one thing neither of you can compromise on. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
KARA ISAAC
Can't Help Falling
Compromising is like making a promise out of an obligation.
CYNTHIA ANN BOYKIN
Restoration Has Finally Come
You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work.
STEPHENIE MEYER
Eclipse
There isn't such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything he wants, and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
THOMAS HUGHES
Tom Brown's School Days
The method of compromise is ... itself a compromise between the two methods, that of persuasion, on the one hand, and that of force, on the other.
OLIVER MARTIN
"Beyond Compromise," Ethics
The question "Doesn't life require compromise?" is usually asked by those who fail to differentiate between a basic principle and some concrete, specific wish. Accepting a lesser job than one had wanted is not a "compromise." Taking orders from one's employer on how to do the work for which one is hired, is not a "compromise." Failing to have a cake after one has eaten it, is not a "compromise." Integrity does not consist of loyalty to one's subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles. A "compromise" (in the unprincipled sense of that word) is not a breach of one's comfort, but a breach of one's convictions. A "compromise" does not consist of doing something one dislikes, but of doing something one knows to be evil.
AYN RAND
The Virtue of Selfishness
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
JOYCE MEYER
attributed, goodreads
Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
AYN RAND
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight--the lazy, the cunning, the cowardly--for they consider themselves defeated before they start.
ST. JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ
The Way
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays
Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Black Water
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"Democracy,", The Writings of James Russell Lowell
Whispering silence
The subtle contradiction
Compromise creeps in
Forgetting who I once was
AS I LAY DYING
"Whispering Silence", Awakened
You compromise and wind up sold in parts.
MARY LOU WILLIAMS
"The Devil"
Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.
CHARLES DE LINT
"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", The Ivory and the Horn
Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping.
LINDY ZART
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